UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has raised the issue of Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir at the Emergency Session of the UN General Assembly which met here to mark one year since Moscow invaded Ukraine.
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Exercising Right of Reply during the General Assembly Session First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the UN Jawad Ajmal said India continues to perpetrate a factually incorrect position on this forum year after year, and that Jammu and Kashmir is an internationally recognized disputed territory and not an integral part of India.
For over 7 decades, India has prevented #Kashmiris, through force & fraud, from exercising this right of #SelfDetermination & holding @UN supervised plebiscite to enable the Kashmiris to determine their destiny: Jawad Ajmal, First Secretary exercised Right of Reply in GA #RoR pic.twitter.com/3HhkJ4WTWM
— Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the UN (@PakistanUN_NY) February 24, 2023
Jawad Ajmal said the right of self-determination of Kashmiri people has been recognized and promised to them by the UN Security Council for over seven decades through its resolutions. India has prevented the Kashmiris, through force and fraud, from exercising the right.
The First Secretary said India has imprisoned the entire Kashmiri leadership, illegally detained thousands of Kashmiri youth including women and children, put down protests violently and burnt down entire neighborhoods and villages.
India irked by Pak statement:
India reacted strongly after Pakistan referred to Jammu and Kashmir during a special session on Ukraine in the UN General Assembly, terming the provocation as “regrettable and misplaced” and calling out Islamabad’s track record of harbouring and providing safe havens to terrorists with impunity.
“I’m taking the floor today to say that India chooses this time not to respond to Pakistan’s mischievious provocations. Our advice to the delegate of Pakistan is to refer to our numerous Rights of Reply that we have exercised in the past,” Counsellor in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN Pratik Mathur said.
Mathur exercised India’s Right of Reply on Thursday after Pakistan’s envoy at the UN Munir Akram referred to Jammu and Kashmir while delivering the explanation of vote on the UN General Assembly resolution on Ukraine during the Emergency Special Session.
“Pakistan has only to look at itself and its own track record as a state that harbours and provides safe havens to terrorists and does so with impunity. Such uncalled for provocation is particularly regrettable and certainly misplaced at a time when after two days of intense discussions, we have all agreed that the path of peace can be the only path forward to resolve conflict and discord,” Mathur said.
